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A high court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison sentence for a U.S. Marine convicted of sexual assault in Okinawa Prefecture in May 2024.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Mar 6, 2026

Japan high court upholds seven-year sentence for U.S. Marine in sexual assault case

The 23-year-old Marine was charged with sexual assault resulting in injury to a woman in Okinawa Prefecture in May 2024.

A picture of Kumiko Yasufuku taken from a high school yearbook

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Mar 6, 2026

Woman indicted over 1999 fatal stabbing in Nagoya

Kumiko Yasufuku is suspected of killing a woman with a knife at the victim’s apartment.

Prosecutors enter the building that houses Eneos Wing's Tokyo branch on Thursday to investigate the prices for gas oil allegedly being fixed.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Mar 5, 2026

Eneos Wing's Tokyo office raided in gas oil price-fixing probe

Eight oil distributors are suspected of forming a cartel to fix gas oil prices for corporate clients in Tokyo such as transportation companies.

A street in Jakarta. Indonesian immigration authorities have arrested 13 Japanese nationals for alleged involvement in fraud cases.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Mar 5, 2026

Indonesia detains 13 Japanese nationals over suspected fraud

Local police in Vietnam have also detained four Japanese individuals on suspicion of defrauding victims in Japan.

The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested three men over alleged involvement in employing Vietnamese nationals without work permits in Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Mar 4, 2026

Three arrested over illegal hiring of Vietnamese workers in Japan

The incident came to light last May following an investigation into a 26-year-old Vietnamese man who was arrested on suspicion of illegal stay.

A Japanese man living in the United States has been arrested for allegedly splashing an oil-like substance at Katori Shrine in the city of Katori, Chiba Prefecture, in 2015.

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Mar 4, 2026

Man held for splashing oil-like substance at shrine near Tokyo in 2015

Masahide Kanayama, a 63-year-old man who lived in the U.S., was brought back to Japan under the U.S.-Japan extradition treaty.

The Japan branch of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, widely known as the Unification Church

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Mar 4, 2026

Tokyo High Court orders Unification Church to dissolve

By Yukana Inoue

The high court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision last year that stripped the group of its status as a religious organization.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

As Japan accelerates AI adoption, policymakers and corporations frame the technology as essential to offsetting a projected labor shortfall of 11 million workers by 2040.

Japan is betting big on AI. Few workers have used it.

By Eric Margolis

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